Forget Camus : Confronting the Humanist Myth
by
Oliver Gloag
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1836742703
ISBN-13
9781836742708
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 2026
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 14.00 x 1.10 cms
Ksh 2,700.00
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PEELING BACK THE MYTHS OBSCURING FRANCE'S ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR AUTHOR
PEELING BACK THE MYTHS OBSCURING FRANCE’S ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR AUTHOR
Albert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti-colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camus’s three major novels – The Stranger, The Plague, and The First Man – reveals a deep-seated attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life. Forget Camus argues that its subject’s contradictions are central to understanding both his work and the meaning behind his enduring popularity. The legacy of the most widely read Frenchman in the world has been co-opted to present a flattering and false version of colonial history and is an obstacle to France coming to terms with its neocolonial present.
Forget Camus is a book about colonial history and a nation’s literature that lays bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present.
Albert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti-colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camus’s three major novels – The Stranger, The Plague, and The First Man – reveals a deep-seated attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life. Forget Camus argues that its subject’s contradictions are central to understanding both his work and the meaning behind his enduring popularity. The legacy of the most widely read Frenchman in the world has been co-opted to present a flattering and false version of colonial history and is an obstacle to France coming to terms with its neocolonial present.
Forget Camus is a book about colonial history and a nation’s literature that lays bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present.
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